Hi @Wm_Kiernan
We warmly welcome you to the Friendly King Community's Candy Crush Saga forum.😉
In fact, the platform on which you are playing the game, the King has stopped working on that platform from long time.There are currently no new updates and the old features are still there and since those features are not currently available in the game, so you will have such difficulty.
However, you can sync the game with Facebook and continue the game at the same level. Of course you will get better platform and there will be no such obstacles.
See here how you can do it.
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